Product Description

The Best Website® book shows how to profit at least $10,000 to $20,000 a month with your website business. The book details specifically "how-to" select the best type of web business to start, build a new website with Easy Web Design. Also, how to create remarkable Internet Marketing... with real results in 11 days! And finally a little known method about how to profit $100,000 in 30 days using a strategy no-one talks about.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56850 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-25
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 146 pages

About the Author
Leading Internet Entrepreneur and Author Nelson Bates has been making money online since 1995. In this time he has built the internet's most successful marketplace to buy and sell internet businesses. This company was selected by the #1 internet marketing company in the world, The Internet Marketing Center® as a Featured Success Story.

He has also worked as a Web Master for Walt Disney World. And is currently President of BestWebsite® LLC which helps people start profitable websites. Nelson graduated from Kansas State University and lives in sunny Orlando, Florida.

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Two Main Points to Making Money Online

1. The most important aspect of making money online is also the hardest thing to do. This is creating significant and consistent traffic to your website. To illustrate why traffic is the most important aspect, consider this: when I was running my website appraisal business, we received submissions from some of the most poorly designed websites that were earning $10,000 to $20,000+ per month in profit. The key was that they had a tremendous flow of traffic.

I never saw a single example of a great looking website, with no or low traffic, making lots of money. I did, however, see plenty of bad and mediocre websites making incredible money, simply because they had excellent traffic.

2. The second main point to making money online is designing a great website. This is split into two parts:

a. Part one is the modifications you make to your website to optimize it for the Search Engines.
b. Part two is everything else that makes up your website, like graphics, layout, navigation structure, and the sales process.

In the design of your website, you want to create immediate credibility in the eyes of the potential customers and effectively lead them through your website to make a purchase (i.e., the sales process), thus, maximizing the number of buyers you get in relation to the number of visitors you receive.

Also, the people who make the most money online, at the very least, know how either to manage their own website (e.g., being able to update content, add links and graphics), or to build the entire website themselves from scratch using one of the professional design tools like Adobe DreamWeaver or Microsoft Expression Web. There are certainly exceptions to this rule but, in general, this is true.

Knowing how to manage and/or build your own website allows all your ideas to come to life without having to pay a web designer (who usually can't ever quite deliver what you intended anyway!).

By learning the methods I show in this book, you will be able to dramatically enhance your ability to manage or build your own website in a fraction of the time and with far better results than trying to pay a designer to build your site.

Don't worry if you've never done this before or have tried in the past and felt overwhelmed; I'll show you a number of ways to get things done effectively either entirely by yourself or by hiring out the details that you don't feel comfortable doing yourself. Some of the tasks you may wish to outsource are: database design, Flash creation and graphic design, to name a few.

So why do most people lose money online?

I believe people lose money online for two reasons. The first reason is because they get bogged down in the details of building their business. Things like server platforms, coding choices, graphic design, layout options, entity formation, and search engine optimization, among others. It's very easy to get confused and lose track of where you need to go. The second reason is that they don't allow enough time for their business to succeed. Most people will not continue past three months if their business does not start to make money. They become frustrated with the process and give up.

In my opinion, you'll need at least 3 to 6 months to establish a solid website and start generating enough traffic to become profitable. It just takes that long to refine your website and gain search engine traffic. But, as long as you know what the right path is, you'll know to keep going.

Customer Reviews

Finally, realistic and applicable information
A remarkably good book at describing the actual steps. in detail - that need to be completed to build a truly profitable website! I'm surprised no one has been able to write a book like this before. An actual complete guide that steps through; what type of website to start, getting the right domain name, setting up the web server, easily building and managing the website and finally, a number of excellent promotional strategies - that are actually mostly free!!

I measure how much I like a book by how many tabs I place to mark the pages... and I have quite a few marked with this book. Even the "How to Make a $100,000 from Something You Already Have." Chapter isn't hype.. It's not easy to do, but it is a very interesting way to make money online.

Could have used more detail with regard to e-mail marketing.. but I think that is being picky. Very very, good book!! I Highly recommend it!!

Honest, Simple, Unique, Well Written Classic on Website Success

Nelson Bates' book titled Best Website, Simple Steps to Successful Websites, (130 some pages divided into eleven critical chapters about what really works) is concisely written in simple English and is a combination business and technical book based on his twelve years of experience in the internet trenches where he has been making money online since 1995.

He built BuySellWebsite.com into the Internet's most popular marketplace for buying and selling Website businesses and developed the Internet's longest running Website Appraisal system, which has also given him a unique insight into the financial side of the Internet at a grassroots level. He's walked his talk.

This is not a get rich quick or opportunity seeker book with overstated optimism about how you to can get rich overnight, but rather a practical, and bluntly honest overview of what really matters if you want to build a profitable internet business. Also, while it covers technical subjects, it is written for the average person and not programmers or geeks.

He clearly and succinctly highlights what you need to know to be successful without superficial or pedantic ivory tower nonsense. The book is down to earth "How-To" book which is a must have in your personal library for anyone who is serious about building a successful Website. In addition to great layout and typography, sporadically placed tips & notes are also visually featured for quick reference.

One of the most important parts of the book is his "Essential 9" where he enumerates the nine most important things you can do now to make your Website a profitable success.

Whether you're a "Fortune 500" company or a kitchen table startup, His book will serve you well saving you time, money and heartache. This action book is a must have, but will only be of value if you follow his advice. I would have liked more Dreamweaver examples, but that's about it.

Fantastic Book!
I'm a professional web designer, yet I didn't have much skill in web marketing. This book has helped me to streamline my marketing efforts online, gaining successful listings with both Yahoo! and Google.
The book itself is well written and easy to use for novice and professionals alike.